In Mesoamerica, religions were connected to the natural world and things such as astronomy and the cycle of life and death. Their belief was highly based on rituals, ceremonies, offerings, and occasionally sacrifices to satisfy the gods. Though the Aztec, Maya, and Inca societies had different practices they had some similar instances like polytheism, a cyclical view of time and "celestial bodies". They practiced offerings but not in similar ways. The Aztecs had a intricate collection of gods who withheld natures forces as powers and powers of war and creation. (ex. Huitzilopochtli: God of the sun and war), The Incas had similar gods who had abilities from nature also. The Aztecs and Mayas performed human sacrifice, and the Incas only offered food, clothing, and drinks. Incan women attended to the gods mostly, the other two didn’t seem to be gender abided. The Mayas wrote astronomy, rituals, and religious matters on bark paper, and they believed the stars and planets are heavenly bodies that influence human affairs. And there was a Mayan divine calendar called the TZOLKIN that tracked the events and ceremonies religious related. And so these religions that these Mesoamericans believed in, were a building block to their political and social segments of societies. Finally the Mayas, Incas, and the Aztecs all had different views of the cosmos with cycles of life and death, and the afterlife and the path of ones soul after his or her actions during life.